Cricket: INZY CAN'T GET HIS LEG OVER; ENGLAND v PAKISTAN, THIRD TEST FROM HEADINGLEY, DAY THREE .. but the joke is on England as Pakistan make a real fight of it.Byline: Mike WALTERS Cricket Correspondent MONTY Panesar Monty Panesar (born Mudhsuden Singh Panesar, 25 April, 1982 in Luton, Bedfordshire), is an English cricketer. A left-arm spinner with a classical action, Panesar plays Test and ODI cricket for England, and county cricket for Northamptonshire. had his wicket way with Inzamamul- Haq - but it's England who must guard against an ignominious ig·no·min·i·ous adj. 1. Marked by shame or disgrace: "It was an ignominious end ... as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt" Angus Deming. bellyf lop LOP - A language based on first-order logic. ["SETHEO - A High-Perormance Theorem Prover for First-Order Logic", Reinhold Letz et al, J Automated Reasoning 8(2):183-212 (1992)]. at Headingley. Inzamam's comic dismissal capped a crazy eight-minute spell in which the Pakistan captain ran out his deputy before breaking his own wicket in a hilarious game of hopscotch. Attempting to heave spinner Panesar through the leg side, big Inzy toppled over like a holed tanker and disturbed the furniture with his forearm and thigh pad. Inzamam's undignified exit echoed England legend Ian Botham's famous hit-wicket escapade at The Oval in 1991, when Test Match Special commentator Jonathan Agnew remarked that Beefy beefy, beefyness 1. in dog conformation, used to describe overdevelopment of musculature in the hindquarters. 2. in cattle, used to designate the desirable physical conformation of a beef animal, but an undesirable character in dairy cattle. "couldn't quite get his leg over" the stumps and Brian Johnston dissolved into a memorable giggling fit. But it's still anybody's game this morning as England, 3-0 in their second innings, trail by 20 runs after bowling out Pakistan for 538. And while the inspirational Inzamam - trying to do the can-can but only managing to perform the can't-can't - supplied a comic interlude, England have two days of serious business to address. Panesar (3-127) was easily the pick of England's bowlers as they were forced to concede a 23-run deficit after being detained by a magnificent, record 363-run stand between Mohammad Yousuf (192) and Younis Khan (173). When Pakistan were cruising on 447-3 just before tea, England were up to their waists in quicksand quicksand State in which water-saturated sand loses its supporting capacity and acquires the characteristics of a liquid. Quicksand is usually found in a hollow at the mouth of a large river or along a flat stretch of stream or beach where pools of water become partly filled and sinking fast before Younis was stranded by Sajid Mahmood's direct hit after 408 minutes of stylish, swaggering defiance. From the next ball, Paul Collingwood ended the third-longest wait in Test history for a maiden wicket when he trapped Faisal Iqbal in front after 63.3 overs without success. Only Lancashire's Len Hopwood and West Indian legend George Headley - who fared rather better as a batsman - had toiled longer in search of a Test bowling average. Collingwood joked: "I think my strike rate needs to come down a touch, but it was just a relief to get my first Test wicket." When Inzy took his tumble, Pakistan had lost three wickets in 10 balls and the lower middle order offered only fleeting resistance against Panesar and Mahmood until a sprightly spright·ly adj. spright·li·er, spright·li·est Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk. adv. In a lively, animated manner. spright 42-run stand for the last wicket snatched the lead. Earlier the Yousuf and Younis show, resuming on 202-2 overnight, rumbled on for 20 minutes shy of six hours until, after 84 overs of largely supine bowling, Steve Harmison breached the dam at last. Yousuf, on course for his third double century in four Tests against England, was rumbled by a lifting delivery which he could only glove to wicketkeeper Chris Read. Dropped by Collingwood when he had scored only five, Pakistan's bearded wonder didn't give England another sniff until he was fortunate to escape a close call for lbw against Matthew Hoggard. By then, however, Yousuf was already on 146 and his partnership with Younis detained England longer than any alliance since Bill Ponsford and Don Bradman's 388-run stand for Australia on the same ground 72 years ago. This was Yousuf's fifth Test hundred against England and his 18th in total: many of his strokes were works of art, and England are no nearer to finding a weakness in his technique than they are to cracking the Enigma code. Younis, stylish and positive, did not offer a single chance in 408 minutes until he dutifully du·ti·ful adj. 1. Careful to fulfill obligations. 2. Expressing or filled with a sense of obligation. du answered Inzamam's call. The last laugh, however, was on Pakistan's skipper. THIRD TEST SCOREBOARD Overnight: England 515 (Pietersen 135, Bell 119' Umar Gul 5-123). Pakistan 202-2 (Mohammad Yousuf 91 no, Younis Khan 64 no). PAKISTAN FIRST INNINGS Khan run out 173 Yousuf c Read b Harmison 192 ul-Haq hit wicket b Panesar 26 Iqbal lbw b Collingwood 0 Akmal c Trescothick b Mahmood 20 Sami c Harmison b Panesar 19 Nazir not out 13 Gul gul n. A stylized octagonal motif in Oriental rugs. [Persian, rose; see julep.] c Panesar b Mahmood 7 Kaneria c Trescothick b Panesar 29 Extras (b-1 lb-20 w-5 nb-6) 32 Total (141.4 overs) 538 Fall: 1-34, 2-36, 3-399, 4-447, 5-447, 6-451, 7-481, 8-489, 9-496. Bowling: Hoggard 29-4-93-1' Harmison 30- 1-142-1' Mahmood 24-4-108-2' Panesar 47.4-13- 127-3' Pietersen 1-0-14-0' Collingwood 10-1-33-1. ENGLAND SECOND INNINGS Trescothick not out 0 Strauss not out 3 Total (0 wkts, 2 overs) 3 Bowling: Mohammad Sami 1-1-0-0' Umar Gul 1-0-3-0. CAPTION(S): OVER.. AND OUT: Inzamam-ul-Haq topples on to his wicket yesterday |
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